When young Rebecca goes to live with her aunts, she finds she has much to learn about polite, ladylike behavior. But it is her aunts who will learn more than they ever dreamed possible once their charming and dauntless niece comes into their lives. "The novel provides a fascinating window into a vanished America and reflects the author's burning belief that adults have a responsibility to cherish, not crush, the unique qualities that each child...

Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.

"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"--

"Robert 'Smiles' Smylie and his friend Ben become embroiled in a high-stakes negotiation with a pair of suspicious Feds when Ben cracks a code with the power to unlock all the Internet's secrets"--

"When Guinevere "Nev" Tallow receives an acceptance letter to the exclusive Deephaven Academy, they know it's the fresh start that they've been looking for. But things are strange from the moment they arrive-the house itself seems to breathe, students whisper secrets in dark corridors, and the entire east wing of the academy is locked away for reasons no one wants to explain. And Nev knows something ragged stalks the shadowy corridors, something that...

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.